BNP Paribas
#1 in Europe for financing fossil fuel expansion.
Your bank has room for improvement on climate responsibility.
BNP Paribas, France's largest bank, has poured at least $165 billion into coal, oil, and gas since the Paris Agreement.
Although BNP Paribas's fossil fuel financing fell sharply between 2021 and 2023, that trend reversed in 2024, when it provided $14.1 billion, up 32% on the previous year. In February 2023, three French NGOs sued BNP Paribas under France's Duty of Vigilance Law, the first time a commercial bank had faced legal action over fossil fuel financing.
BNP Paribas has set stronger fossil fuel restrictions than UK or US peers, including stopping financing for new oil and gas fields, ending bond underwriting for oil and gas producers in May 2024, and publishing its own Energy Supply Financing Ratio. But corporate-level financing for fossil majors like TotalEnergies remains permitted.
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